Sakura (box)

Template:127 Japan The Sakura box camera was sold by Konishiroku (today Konica) in 1931. It is said on this page of the Camera Information Center that it was equipped with the first self-made Konica shutter (not imported).

It apparently existed in two sizes, for 4x6.5 pictures on 127 film and for 6x9 pictures on 120 film, in black or luxury brown leather finish.

Links

• The Sakura box, black 4x6.5 model and brown? 6x9 model in the Camera database of the Center of the History of Japanese Industrial Technology
• The Sakura box camera, brown 4x6.5 model at the Mafnet site
• A Japanese article about the Konica history at the Camera Information Center website